Exercise 42

Expand the following elliptical sentences. Analyze them.

1. Slow wavelets caressed the bland brown beach with a sound as of kisses and whispers.—Hearn.

2.

I am alone; my bugle strain

May call some straggler of the train;

Or, fall the worst that may betide,

Ere now this falchion has been tried.—Scott.

3. The thing for thee to do is, if possible, to cease to be a hollow-sounding shell of hearsays and become a faithful discerning soul.—Carlyle.

4. Another, his big brother, though evidently some years younger, is selling doughnuts and bonbons.—Mrs. Dodge.